And there was Mitt, using unclear metaphors, pandering to the crowd like an overeager puppy, coming across as awkward and out-of-touch (His use of “Amazon Kindle” is the stuff of legends, by the way). Let’s just let Jon Stewart take it away, because here’s yet the umpteenth example of Stewart doing the job that talking heads and journalists seem unwilling to do.

The only thing more obvious than Romney’s absurd pandering is how desperate he is to be elected. Or as Jon Stewart put it during last night’s segment: “You want to be President so bad, Al Gore can taste it.”

What’s amazing about this segment, aside from how badly Romney comes across, is that Romney is supposedly the centrist candidate. By all accounts he “won” last night’s GOP debate, which is like winning a herpes sore from sleeping with a prostitute.

Between him, Perry, Crazy-eyes Bachmann, and Ron Paul (do we even have to mention the non-contenders like Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, and Huntsman?), it doesn’t feel like there is an honest-to-god candidate amongst them.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were actually a sane and intelligent candidate to at least, you know, challenge Obama on his hit-or-miss policies these past three years?